Thanks Robbie!
Advanced- Taking a side road...
Speedtech's other projects can be seen on our gallery page. Some of these are customer builds but many of them were done in our shop. The name on the gallery describes whether we built them or not...
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The wagon was a project I started when I went back to school in a Street Rod fabrication program.
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I have a build thread on the wagon,
Click Here It shows all the mods I did to it but I was a bit lengthy explaining what I did and sometimes how. If you've only got a few minutes I took a bunch of photos so you can scroll through those. Since the school assembly I've gone through and converted to all Speedtech suspension and Viking Crusader autoX valved coilovers front and rear. Currently I'm working on some interior upgrades, then some body and new paint and then I'm planning to shoot for 500+ ft lbs in another 406 I have waiting in the garage. It's bee a while since I updated the build thread. :/ My wagon is an evolving project, I drive it daily and as I have the funds it's a constantly evolving effort to keep up with and hopefully conquer a lot of the pony cars that are attending the bigger Pro Touring autocross events.
If you like wagons, my teenage son also picked up a car like mine. He got all my old suspension parts and we're currently working on a 5.3/4L60 swap from a 2003 Tahoe in it. Been a while since we updated his thread too...
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My 'Burban is an all stock 2500 2 wheel drive with a 454 for now. I bought it when my wife's 89 Caravan finally bit the dust, we were desperate and money was tight at the time. I picked it up for chump change, it had been listed on the classifieds for a long time and the price reduced. Engine, trans, and interior had been redone, and the paint too but the bad job left leprosy clear coat peeling everywhere so it was a bit ugly and I guess no one wanted it. When the wagon is finished (or close to it) I will likely do another junk yard LS/overdrive in the Burby, much like you guys did, and I want to convert it to 5 lug and drop it 6" on 20" MB old schools. For now we use it occasionally to haul the family around, the 10 mpg on the highway isn't that great, but it's fun to drive, at least for me. Would be more fun if it were dropped
. Since the Burby is "so big" my wife now drives a little import wagon that gets a lot better mileage and fits in parking lots better, lol!
When I hit the lottery I'd like to build the 454 from the Burby and put it in my 74 Nova. I used to drag race a lot but since my son and I started auto crossing the Nova's been on the back burner and spare change I have laying around goes towards the wagon for now.